Lifestyle Design is For Everyone – TSP Rewind – Epi-305

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Society & Culture, Philosophy

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🗓️ 6 November 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Today we discuss the concept of lifestyle design, which has been a core piece of TSP since the very first days of our journey. Many credit author and entrepreneur Tim Ferris with this concept. I love Tim and have followed his work for years. There is no doubt that he is a big part of the movement today, but he simply made people aware of the concept. The concept itself is as old as civilization. There have always been people who have lived differently then others, more disciplined and with a plan for their life. For instance the 1926 classic … Continue reading →

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0:00.0	Hi folks, Jack Spirco here.
0:02.2	Today you are listening to an episode of TSP Rewind.
0:07.1	Commercial-free versions of past episodes.
0:10.2	Podcasts blasts from the pasts.
0:12.1	I put these up when I can't do a show due to professional commitments or rare vacations.
0:16.6	These podcasts will appear in standard iTunes, Stitcher, and other feeds,
0:20.4	but will be titled
0:21.1	TSP Rewind episodes and numbered accordingly.
0:24.6	And today we are rewinding back to October 23rd, 2018.
0:30.4	This originally was episode 2,315, Why Lifestyle Design is for everyone. Remember, you're getting rewinds this week because we are at
0:42.5	TSP 25, which is a great big giant gathering of a whole bunch of you guys hanging out here at
0:49.1	9 Mile Farm. If you were unable to make it this year, I want to remind you you can watch all of the classroom presentations for free on our YouTube channel.
0:59.1	Just check for upcoming live streams there.
1:02.3	With that, let's go ahead and rewind back to 2018 and talk about why lifestyle design really is for everyone.
1:11.2	All right, so with that, let's go ahead and get into the main topic of today's show,
1:15.8	which of course is lifestyle design.
1:18.5	What I really want you to understand about this right from the beginning is exactly what lifestyle design is all about.
1:29.6	And I've used this analogy before, but it is the best one that I know.
1:34.7	Every day, all across the world, ships leave ports.
1:39.7	Sometimes there's a small crew, a private, you know, basically yacht.
1:44.2	Sometimes it's a giant freighter bringing a whole bunch of plastic crap from China, et cetera.
1:49.0	But this happens all over the world.
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